It Lurks in Underground Spaces
It lurks in underground spaces
Darkened squares and
Blackened woodlands
By day, parklands
By night, the dirt grime squalor and horror
of knotted roots
Labyrinthine caves within stark trunks
The leaves its lace.
By day the fresh winds,
Its fetid breath by night.
Evil stalks by day,
and goose-steps arrogantly at night,
in the darkness of this evil hour.
A myriad torches
Long vulture-flames leaping
Clutching at the stars
That lightning reminder
Of the Host
That writing on the wall
That consigns it to oblivion but extinction not.
It stalks the land in many guises
Righteousness of a kind
is not a garment unfamiliar;
Pretending to lurk in only subterranean places,
It basks naked, and deliberate,
in the light of humankind.
It looks for the tiniest crack
into which it can make its home,
The tiniest crack becomes gargantuan
as it multiplies itself.
Its hovel becomes a house,
Its house a manor,
Its manor a mansion,
Its mansion a palace.
And yet to naked eye
Evident only is the tiniest crack.
The master of disguise
It dons the cloak of respectability
To hide its odious demeanour
And its most favoured cloak
is any and every religion …
Unfinished
12 November 2021
All Rights Reserved
© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2021
Composed 28 September 2016
Re-run 28 September 2021
Worked afresh on 11 November 11 2021
Unfinished-in-Progress
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
